Does Today's Scripture Help You To Keep Improving While Awaiting Jesus?    Good Morning Friends,    There is a trajectory to today's lectionary text that is about faithfulness and holiness and continuous improvement in relationships and love and marriage and how God can be part of it all. There is a trajectory in today's lectionary … Continue reading Does Today’s Scripture Help You To Keep Improving While Awaiting Jesus? →

 Good Morning Friends,  No one likes to be told that they are sinners especially in earshot of others. The opportunities around such a situation can lead the unscrupulous to schemes of emotional blackmail. People of faith can be manipulated by such situations. In fact, they may be particularly vulnerable to such people. That is why … Continue reading Are We Prepared Emotionally To Please God? →

 Good Morning Friends,    Well if you do not believe in God that is one thing, but if you do you really have to wrestle with today's question.  What Is Our Responsibility To God?  Scripture: You remember our labor and toil, brothers and sisters; we worked night and day, so that we might not burden any … Continue reading What Is Our Responsibility To God? →

What Could Happen Next If We Actually Tried To Please God?  Good Morning Friends,  Today we continue to read about the woes of the places and people of worship and the need for them to be cleaned from the inside and the thing is that it is not just in scripture, but in the world … Continue reading What Could Happen Next If We Actually Tried To Please God? →

 Good Morning Friends,    In today's lectionary passage from Matthew Jesus rips into religious hypocrites that had created their own brand of legalism to perpetuate their own power. The Pharisees were not demonic, evil people but had fallen into a way of worship that was self-serving. They had fallen prey to pride in a way … Continue reading In Our Effort To Look Good Do We Forget What A Model Church Looks Like? →

Good Morning Friends,  I hope you are entering a time in your relationship with God when God is revealing to you what God is doing. When you open the Bible and when we feast on the Book, this sometimes can happen. Holy History is always moving toward something. When the time is right it will … Continue reading How Does God’s Endgame Apply To Us Today →

Do You Have The Welcoming Countenance Of A Love That Lasts?  Good Morning Friends,    Ralph Waldo Emerson observed that the entire world loves a lover and maybe he was right for the Bible is the best-selling book of all time. And it is filled with great love stories that instruct us. These stories are … Continue reading Do You Have The Welcoming Countenance Of A Love That Lasts? →

What Can We Say To Those Who Challenge Christ?  Good Morning Friends,    Today we have the parable of the wedding and its implied vows compared to a vow taken by Jephthah, a Gileadite warrior, a judge, who delivered Israel from the Ammonites and sacrificed his daughter in fulfilment of the vow. The stories are … Continue reading What Can We Say To Those Who Challenge Christ? →

Who Will Feed The Sheep And Will They Ever Be Satisfied?  Good Morning Friends,  Today's lectionary selection includes two parables that give us a little insight into the Kingdom of God compared to the kingdoms of people. I have added the first verse of Psalm 23 to complement the readings. We begin with one of … Continue reading Who Will Feed The Sheep And Will They Ever Be Satisfied? →

 Good Morning Friends,   There was a time in Israel's history when there was no king and everyone did what was right in their own eyes. People felt forsaken because the miracles that had been part of their father's history were not happening for the next generation. They were wondering why bad things were happening … Continue reading Are We Discouraged When We Should Be Thankful? →